Events
February 2, 2017
10:00 AM
Forum, KQED Radio, San Francisco
February 15, 2017
A Train Through Time is available for purchase.
February 15, 2017
7:30 PM
Launch and reading at Mrs. Dalloway's bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, California, 94705 http://www.mrsdalloways.com
March 6, 2017
7:00 PM
Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks at Book Passage bookstore, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, California, 94925 http://www.bookpassage.com
March 24, 2017
7:00 PM
Reading and interview by author Charlie Haas at Kaleidosocope Coffee, Point Richmond, California
June 4 or 5, 2017 (check back for date)
Elizabeth Farsnworth reads and hosts a panel discussion at the Bay Area Book Fair
June 11, 2017
2:00 PM
Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks at the Topeka Library
February 10, 2018
6:30 PM
Elizabeth Farnsworth is being honored at the Berkeley Public Library Author's Dinner
Press
"Farnsworth weaves together memories of growing up in Topeka — obsessing on the early passing of her mother — with characters from The Wizard of Oz, a mythical transcontinental train ride trapped in a freezing blizzard, and her many adult travels to dangerous conflict zones around the world." ― America's Quarterly
"Elizabeth Farnsworth has written something very special, a book that does not fit easily into our conception of book categories – and that is a good thing. Her book is an exploration of childhood memories of loss and of family life that woven together with more recent stories of her work as a journalist and documentary film maker, are built into a fictional structure. The book forms an almost dream state to carry the author (and the reader) through her story." ― Interview with David Wilk on Writers Cast
"For a veteran NewsHour journalist, an early loss defined her life's journeys. Elizabeth Farnsworth traveled the world for years as a foreign correspondent for the NewsHour. Her new book, "A Train Through Time," examines her experiences in hotspots such as Latin America. But it's more than a story of her reporting, as she details her childhood and the loss of her mother, and also blends fact with fiction. Farnsworth sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss her work." ― Interview on PBS The Newshour
"Like all good memoirs, “A Train Through Time” offers the reader an opportunity to “ride along” with an intelligent and reflective narrator as she inventories her life and offers us an insider’s view of some of the most morally challenging moments in our country’s history." ― San Francisco Chronicle
"Filmmaker and foreign correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth may be best-known for her work in dangerous parts of the world. She's reported for the PBS NewsHour from Cambodia, Haiti, Saudi Arabia and Chile...but before she became a globe-trotting journalist, she was a Kansas native. Now she's written a book about her experiences and the way they connect to her childhood in Topeka. She talked with KPR's Laura Lorson about her unusual sense of storytelling, and how her memoir reflects that." ― Kansas Public Radio
"Author/ Journalist Elizabeth Farnsworth is home this weekend. The Topeka native and "PBS News Hour" reporter/anchor makes two major stops in Topek" ―Interview on WBIW TV
"In her affecting new memoir, A Train Through Time, Farnsworth strives to understand not only the mystery of her mother's death but also the way it shaped her career as a filmmaker and foreign correspondent ... Though she meticulously fact-checked the snippets from her reporting trips, she explains, she let her imagination remake her memories of the train trip -- and help her reconcile her mother's death. It makes her an uncommonly sensitive and engaging companion for readers along for the ride." ― Middlebury Magazine
"Filmmaker and PBS foreign correspondent Farnsworth packs a life's worth of pain and self-discovery into a slim memoir that fuses fiction and memory… The scenes of destruction abroad are chillingly real… [S]he's such an able storyteller and her tale of loss, suffused with a child's desire to attach meaning and reasoning to death, is so universal." ― Publishers Weekly
"In new memoir, Elizabeth Farnsworth takes ‘a train through time’ ... " ― Berkeleyside